Milos Hrma Quotes in Closely Watched Trains (1966)

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Milos Hrma: My name is Milos Hrma. People often laughed at my name. But ours was a famous family. Great Grandfather Lukas was a drummer and fought on the Charles Bridge in Prague. The students threw cobblestones at the soldiers and hit Grand Grandfather so hard that he was pensioned off on one gulden a day. He didn't do anything after that except buying a bottle of rum and a pack of tobacco every day.

Milos Hrma: I cut myself off from the past entirely. Just like that.

Milos Hrma: Great grandfather Lukas instead of staying home he went to see the workers and made fun of hard working men, so every year grandpa Lukas would get beat somewhere. And in 1930 great grandfather boasted in front of stone cutters whose quarry had just been closed and they beat him so badly he died.

Milos Hrma: I'm Milos Hrma. I've tried to kill myself because I'm suffering from premature ejaculation. But that's really not so. Even though I flop every time, I'm a real man.